A propos of staying on message, the brilliant Sarah Jaynes, of Rural Democracy Initiative/Winning Jobs Narrative, said this recently at a meeting (of All In for NC): "Hard work is a love language for working people. The heroes of the story are working people; portray government as helping that, not being the star. E.g. - child tax credit: puts $ in the pockets of working families so that they can go to work and participate in our economy. First, you have to DO things for working people to raise their quality of life and standard of living."
Every time people talk about trade, they should point out that giant corporations are responsible for moving work off-shore. Computer chips are the best example. Intel and others took US know-how and US capital to Asia to save a few bucks on chip making.
They did so because they were greedy bastards with no regard for US workers. They did so because the Taiwanese and others offered enormous tracts of land, tax breaks, and infrastructure improvements, and other goodies I don't know about.
But labor is not the crucial factor in chip-making. It's a purely mechanical process. The labor is in packing and shipping the chips. Sure, there's some cost in operations and repairs, but that's not the decisive factor. And in chip design, which is still done here as far as I know.
We can fly enough chips to keep a factory running making PCs and blades for next to nothing, compared with the loss of US jobs.
But Dems don't want to blame their donors, so this goes unsaid.
A propos of staying on message, the brilliant Sarah Jaynes, of Rural Democracy Initiative/Winning Jobs Narrative, said this recently at a meeting (of All In for NC): "Hard work is a love language for working people. The heroes of the story are working people; portray government as helping that, not being the star. E.g. - child tax credit: puts $ in the pockets of working families so that they can go to work and participate in our economy. First, you have to DO things for working people to raise their quality of life and standard of living."
Every time people talk about trade, they should point out that giant corporations are responsible for moving work off-shore. Computer chips are the best example. Intel and others took US know-how and US capital to Asia to save a few bucks on chip making.
They did so because they were greedy bastards with no regard for US workers. They did so because the Taiwanese and others offered enormous tracts of land, tax breaks, and infrastructure improvements, and other goodies I don't know about.
But labor is not the crucial factor in chip-making. It's a purely mechanical process. The labor is in packing and shipping the chips. Sure, there's some cost in operations and repairs, but that's not the decisive factor. And in chip design, which is still done here as far as I know.
We can fly enough chips to keep a factory running making PCs and blades for next to nothing, compared with the loss of US jobs.
But Dems don't want to blame their donors, so this goes unsaid.